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Committee lays over bill to raise marriage-license and dissolution fees for Minnesota Family Resiliency Partnership
Summary
The committee laid over House File 1021, which would add $30 to each dissolution filing fee and $30 to each marriage license filing fee to increase funding for the Minnesota Family Resiliency Partnership. Testimony emphasized the program's services for displaced homemakers and survivors of domestic violence and presented outcome statistics.
The Committee on Judiciary, Finance, and Civil Law laid over House File 1021 after Representative Scott presented the bill proposing a $30 increase on each dissolution filing fee and each marriage license filing fee to boost funding for the statewide Minnesota Family Resiliency Partnership (MFRP).
Chair Scott told members the fee increase would not raise the total filing fee for applicants and represented the first adjustment to these designated fees in 22 years. Testifiers described the MFRP as a 45-year program serving…
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